238 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Geurn urbanum, Linn 6" . 



The " Avens " of Britain. Europe, North- Africa, extra-tropical 

 and alpine Asia, South-Eastern Australia, North-America. A per- 

 ennial herb; the powerful anti-dysenteric root, according to Muspratt, 

 contains as much as 41 per cent, of tannic acid. 



Gigantochloa Abyssinica, F. v. Mueller. (Oxytenanthera Abyssinica, 

 Munro. ) 



Tropical Africa. A tall Bamboo, ascending to considerable moun- 

 tain-elevations. 



Gigantochloa apus, Kurz. (Bambusa apus, Schultes filius.) 



Indian Archipelagus, at elevations under 5,000 feet. Height of 

 stem reaching 60 feet. When young it is used for strings and 

 ropes. 



Gigantochloa aspera, Kurz. 



Java. Found by Zollinger to attain a maximum-height of 170 

 feet. 



Gigantochloa ater, Kurz.* 



Java, at elevations of from 2,000 to 4,000 feet. Height of -stems 

 reaching 70 feet. One of the species much grown for rural and 

 industrial purposes. 



Gigantochloa maxima, Kurz.* (G. verticillata; Munro.) 



Java. Height sometimes 120 feet, the stems nearly a foot thick. 

 One of the most extensively cultivated of all Asiatic Bamboos, 

 ascending into mountain-regions. The Whorled Bamboo. Grows 

 in damp heat at the astonishing rate of 40 feet in about three 

 months, according to Bouche. The young shoots furnish an edible 

 vegetable like G-. apus and Bambusa Bitung. 



Gigantochloa nigrociliata, Kurz. (Oxytenanthera nigro-citiata, Munro.) 

 Continental and insular India. Stems to 130 feet long. 



Gigantochloa robusta, Kurz. 



Mountains of Java. Height to about 100 feet. Kurz noticed the 

 early growth to be nearly 18 feet in a month, the principal branches 

 only commencing when the shoot had reached a height of about 70 

 feet. Some Java-bamboos are known to measure 22 inches in girth 

 at a height of about 120 feet. 



Gigantochloa Thwaitesii, Kurz. (Oxytenanthera Thwaitetii, Munro.) 



Ceylon, at cool elevations of from 4,000 to 6,000 feet. This pretty 

 Bamboo reaches only 12 feet in height. 



